A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

The huge find offered new insights into what is known as the “Cambrian explosion,” around 530 million years ago.

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Half a billion years ago, a shallow sea in what is now Siberia teemed with creatures that look more like science fiction than prehistory. Locked in that ancient seabed, scientists have now identified ...

For billions of years, life had been playing it safe with single-celled minimalism. Then came the Cambrian period – nature’s version of a creative explosion. Imagine going from microbial monotony to ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...